Heterogeneous Impact of the Social Programme Oportunidades on Use of Contraceptive Methods by Young Adult Women Living in Rural Areas

Citation

Lamadrid-Figueroa, Héctor; Angeles, Gustavo; Mroz, Thomas A.; Urquieta-Salomon, Jose Edmundo; Hernandez-Prado, Bernardo; Cruz-Valdez, Aurelio; & Tellez-Rojo, Martha M. (2010). Heterogeneous Impact of the Social Programme Oportunidades on Use of Contraceptive Methods by Young Adult Women Living in Rural Areas. Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2(1), 74-86.

Abstract

Rarely have researchers explored the distribution of a programme's effects in a population, tending to focus on unidimensional measures of impact instead. This can mask heterogeneity of effects, making it difficult to identify subsets of the population for whom impacts might differ from a population average. The authors exploit the design of Mexico's Oportunidades programme to construct measures of the heterogeneous impacts of the programme on contraception and compare these with conventional effect estimates. They find that the latter, while probably reliable for particular types of effects, fail to uncover the substantial programme impacts on the poorest women in rural Mexico.

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19439341003599726

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

2010

Journal Title

Journal of Development Effectiveness

Author(s)

Lamadrid-Figueroa, Héctor
Angeles, Gustavo
Mroz, Thomas A.
Urquieta-Salomon, Jose Edmundo
Hernandez-Prado, Bernardo
Cruz-Valdez, Aurelio
Tellez-Rojo, Martha M.

ORCiD

Angeles - 0000-0003-4598-152X